Logan woke up the next morning with the sun. He got changed and went into the room next to his to look at Faye, but she was already gone. Her scent was the only thing left. He remembered their conversation from the night before. He had asked her how long she had followed him and she said that since he joined the Institute; that intrigued him.
*Why didn't she just get in touch with me before?* he thought. *It would've been a lot easier than just sneaking around with Sabertooth.*
He found out that she had watched out for him like a guardian angel for a long time now. She was near when he first found out that Sabertooth used Evan to get to him. She followed them when they dropped him off in the ice after Rogue stole his powers. She was also with him when he first learned the truth about Weapon X and himself, she had actually helped him before the lab exploded--always from afar, though, never showing who it was that helped him. After the incident with Magneto and Asteroid M, she went South for a while; she had said that she knew he never needed her help, she just wanted be certain.
'Why come back now,' he had asked.
'I'm needed now,' she answered.
'Why?'
'Can't tell unless I'm certain.'
'Not even to me?'
'I'm sorry, but no.'
That's what he hated about her, she could never see him as trustworthy. He never knew if she was telling him the truth or another lie to hide something or someone. Exactly like that one day, they were supposed to be happy...but no! She had to run away, he never knew why, never wanted to ask; not even now. He just wanted to pretend that never happened.
Logan went downstairs, but it was worse. She had wandered the whole house trying to find a silent way of leaving, which made her scent be everywhere. Trying to get away, he went into the Danger Room, where he stayed for most of the day.

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The kids started getting ready for school. Scott was the first to leave because he needed to be in school early. He had gotten an assignment from one of his teachers the day before. It was fairly easy: give one of the new students a tour of the school, help him around a little bit and he would get an easy A+. He parked in the student parking lot and left his car, few kids were hanging around the front door.
Scott went inside and headed for the principal's office.

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Inside the office was Principal Kelly and Jade.
"Everything is ready. I asked one of the teachers to give a special assignment to Scott Summers like you requested. And you will be placed on a desk near Rogue on the third class of the day," said Kelly fearfully.
"Excellent, Edward. Be sure that this will be remembered when your day comes," Jade said looking at her watch.
"May I ask why the interest on Scott and Rogue specifically?"
"You take care of the things I gave to you, and I will make sure my mission is completed."
"Yes, Ma'am"
Jade smiled greatly, her dark hair glowing with the morning light, gave her an almost eerie air. She was truly not someone to trust, or maybe it was just _what_ she was and not _who_ she was that was the real problem. Either way she wanted something and wasn't telling anyone.

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"Principal Kelly? The young man you requested is here," announced his secretary on the intercom.
"Send him in," said Kelly as a response.
Scott went inside to see Principal Kelly sitting on his desk and a young woman sitting across him. She turned around to look at him and he was stunned. She must have been one the prettiest girls he's ever seen, besides Jean, of course. But somehow her beauty was different, she was sort of mesmerizing. Her voice was soft and very trance-like. He didn't remember much that was said to him but when he woke up he was sitting next to her in the patio at lunch.
He didn't remember any kind of thoughts, but he did remember that he took her to her locker, to see the library, different classrooms, etc. He did remember every single word she said to him but he couldn't make sense out of them; it was as if they were separate words without any link to each other.
Kurt, Evan, and Kitty sat with them as Jade ate her salad.
"Why just a salad?" asked Kurt.
"Is this, like, some sort of diet?" asked Kitty eagerly.
"No, I just have to keep my energy intake low," explained Jade matter-of-factly.
On her watch the message "Are you crazy?!?!?" flashed non-stop.
*Relax,* she thought. *I got it under control.*
"What do you mean 'energy intake'?" asked Scott.
"Yes, I have to keep it down otherwise I'm no good to do anything else. If I eat too much carbohydrates I won't be able to sleep for three days. So I decided to be a vegetarian," said Jade and ate another fork full of greens.
"Oh, I get it. It's just like me with milk," said Evan and bit his tongue.
Scott looked at him with a face that said, "What are you saying???"
"Milk? Anyone in your family has osteoporosis?" asked Jade, as if she didn't know why Evan really needed the milk.
"Yea, I really must drink lots of milk. It replenishes calcium," said Evan, embarrassed but relieved that Jade hadn't notice that he had just put his big foot on his mouth.

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Jean looked around for a seat and saw the new girl with them. She would have to introduce herself since none of her friends would do it for her. With the best of poses and trying to keep her jealousy down, Jean walked toward the table. As she was getting close to them, the girl tossed her milk to Evan, got up, picked up her coat and her trash, and left. Scott was saying something to her as she left. Jean noticed her nodding and smiling, a very beautiful smile, by the way. Jean bit her lip but approached the table, nonetheless.
"Who was that?" she asked as she sat down.
"Her name is Jade Fey. She's really nice and very pretty, huh, Scott?" said Kurt, winking at Scott.
Jean looked at Scott, who felt a little uncomfortable. She contained her anger and looked at Kitty, who was talking to Kurt about the new girl's outfit. Jean scoffed and looked at Evan. He was excitedly working on the milk that "Jade" gave him.
Exasperated Jean got up and went to sit with Duncan and his friends.

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Jade threw her trash away and walked in the direction of the wooden area that was near the school. In her watch, Tom said "Rogue is sitting next to a tree, but there's someone with her."
*Who?* asked Jade.
"Risty Wilde," flashed in her watch.
*And you never found out anything about her?*
"There was nothing to find out. She doesn't exist."
*Interesting.*
Jade turned around the corner and saw Rogue sitting with Risty underneath a tree. They were discussing some kind of plans for the weekend or what happened the weekend before, Jade couldn't tell. Jade started to register Risty's energy so she could easily pinpoint her for further reference. As her eyes started glowing, she saw Rogue's orange energy, the green energy of the trees, and a blue energy next to hers. Risty's energy didn't really make up the same outside form she had. Suddenly, Jade's eyes shot up and her mouth dropped: she knew that form, it was Mystique.
Smiling in triumph, Jade went back the way she came from. Befriending Rogue would just have to wait; she had bigger fish to fry now, much bigger.

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After school, Risty and Rogue were walking toward Risty's locker. Rogue was going to get a ride with her to an ice cream shop and then they would have to think of something to do.
As Risty put in the combination to her locker and opened her locker, Bobby came running to talk to Rogue. She shrugged, their little talk didn't interest her. She turned back to her locker and noticed a small note at the bottom of her locker. She opened the note thinking it was from some stupid kid with a little crush on her. It said:
"I know who you really are. Meet me after school near the football field. I have important matters to discuss with you. If you don't come, I'll let your little secret out."
It wasn't signed. She found this suspicious, but decided to ignore it, after all she couldn't shake off Rogue that easily, neither did she want to. She just had to take that chance.
Jade was looking at her at a distance.
"She's not coming, is she?" asked Tom on her watch.
*No,* answered Faye. *She's not. She doesn't know who she's dealing with. I'll have to try again tomorrow. It's ok, I'll have to go to the university anyway and then I have a little meeting with Scott Summers in the Institute.*
"Congratulations, your plan is going as expected."
She smiled eagerly, turned around and left.